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BOTTLE STOPPER.

Patented Oct. 5, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK J. DEVERALL, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO THE DEVERALL MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATICN forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,353, dated October 5, 1886.

Application filed March 24, 1886. St rial No. 196,320.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK J. DEVER- ALL, a citizen of the United Statesand a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Stoppers for Bottles, Cans, and other Receptacles, of which .the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in stoppers for bottles, cans, and other receptacles; and it consists in the elements hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this application, and in which-- Figure? is a central vertical section of a stopper, the outlet being closed; and Fig. 1 is a view of a form of the invention employing an air-vent and a horizontal discharge-openmg.

The invention which is the subject of the application of which this specification forms a part may be considered as further improving the stopper shown and claimed in Letters Patent of the United States numbered 313,926, and issued to me March 17, 1885. In said patent the stopper is reversible, one end being in.

serted into the cork when the fluid is to be poured out, and the other end when the bottle is to be closed,whereas, according to the present invention, the stopper is merely turned a definite distance in one direction to open, and in the other to close, the outlet from the bottle.

In the drawings, A denotes the'stopper, consisting of the cork B, fitting the mouth of the bottle,and the tube 0, filling a central aperture in the cork. The outlet-passage D through the tube 0 is open at its upper end and closed at its lower end, except at a suitable point on the side of the tube,whereat it opens into an aperture, E,which is in such relation to a recess, F cut in the bottom of the cork B,that itmay, by turning the tube, be brought into communication with said recess or removed therefrom at will, and thus form an unobstructed outlet, or close said outlet and prevent any esca'pe'ol' the contents of the receptacle. Upon the tube is provided a stop or disk, G, which rests upon the cork B and serves as a means of prevent- (No model.)

ing the tube from passing too far through the san1e,and of enabling the user to readily turn the tube. An arrow or other directing-mark, arranged in line with the aperture E, may be applied upon the stop G and utilized to guide the user in turning the tube, so as to bring the said aperture into communication with the recess F,which may be readily observable through glass bottles; or an indicating-mark on the'outside of the receptacle maybe made to denote the position of the recess. \Vhen the arrow andindicating-mark are brought into line, it will indicate that the aperture E and recess F are in communication with each other, and when they are not in line it will denote that the aperture is against a solid part of the cork,and that the outlet is closed. The tube 0 has a smooth external surface, so as to pass into the aperture in the cork without obstruction, the aperture being previously formed by a suitable machine constructed for the purpose. The tube 0 is of cast metal, its lower end being solid and terminating adjacent to the lower suface of the cork, where it will, under all usual conditions, be removed from contact with the'liquid contents of the bottle when the latter is at rest. The stop G" completely covers the cork B and presents a desirable finish to the upper end of the bottle. It is cast with and forms an essential part of the tube O,and serves as a ready means of enabling the user to turn the tube.-

The cork B, owing to its natural characteristics, may be made to closely fit within and bind against the inner walls of the mouth of the bottle without interfering with the independent turning of the tube 0.

In the stopper shown in Fig. 1 the tube O is made in two parts united beneath the disk or stop G and inolosing the ball N, which operates to close the aperture E, as indicated.

The edges of the disk or stop G (shown in Fig. 2) are first made plain, and then turned down under the shoulder P on the neck of the bottle, where they serve to lock the stopper in position without interfering with its being turned for the purpose of opening and closing the outlet-passage. The object of locking the stopper in the bottle is to prevent the latter from being refilled with an inferior material after its contents have been consumed. The ba1lvalve prevents evaporation from or the entrance of foreign matter to the bottle,

In some instances-such as for ink-botlles it will be desirable to provide the stopper with an airvent and. a horizontaldischarge, and at such times the stopper may be constructed as shown in Fig. 1, wlmrein Q denotes the airvent, and It the horizontal discharge, both passing through the stop or disk G from opposite sides and communicating with t-heinain ontlet-passage D.

In constructing the stopper shown in Fig. 1 the passage D may be drilled through the top of the stop G, and the aperti'ire thus made in the stop afterward filled by a plug, T.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters jlatent, is-

1. The stopper consisting 01' the tube Cand cork B, the latter having a recess, F, in its bot' ly-projecting shoulder around the mouth of the receptacle, substantially as shown and described.

Sig'ned at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 18th day 01' February, A. D. 1886.

FREDERWK. J. IDEVICILAIJL.

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Ones. G. GILL, EDWARD \VOLFI". 

